Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Veritasium: BUSTED!" video.

I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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Actually Derek Muller (Veratasium) has a BA in Applied Science from Queens University in Ontario. So unlike many Science Communicators he actually does at least have a technical qualification. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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@trinidad17 I don't agree from the simple standpoint that, (as the person who started this thread points out) he's not shamelessly plugging garbage or hype or both. He's just not perfect - so what.
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@TechySeven As others have said this is nothing like many of his other busted videos, which is why I don't think its really a busted video.
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Great video mate, but I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids. I know your background is in chemistry mine is in engineering where I work in control systems and automation. There is a kind of flow meter that is very common for water treatment called a "Magnetic Flow Meter" usually referred to as a "mag flow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_flow_meter I have been on a waster water project where ON PART of that project we could just not get them to work properly. It was on a mine site with some highly contaminated water. The process included chemical treatment, clarification, filtration and finally reverse osmosis. The RO was far from normal and was designed to almost de-mineralize the water. That caused a problem with the mag flow meters on the clean outlet side of the RO plant. They were fine everywhere else on the project but we could just not get them to work properly on the RO plant clean outlet where there was almost no contaminants. The thought was we just didn't have enough conductivity between the electrodes to make them work. Not certain if that helps or not. I suspect its not as straight forward as a lot of people think.
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@kevinmm20 It's been a while but I'd say until somebody does the work and actually explains it properly then nobody is absolutely right.
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@kevinmm20 Thunderf00t's pretty good but he's not perfect either. As said I'll wait for someone to do some hard science on it. I suspect this is one of those strange science problems where there are multiple effects making stuff happen. There's a few things like super conductors being universally repelled by electromagnets. The current explanation is eddy currents, but how can anyone actually prove it? If you 've ever met theoretical physicists you'd know they aren't normal.
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I'm not certain what your background is but I work in control systems and automation. There is a kind of flow meter that is very common for water treatment called a "Magnetic Flow Meter" usually referred to as a "mag flow". I have been on a waster water project where on part of that project we could just not get them to work properly. It was on a mine site with some highly contaminated water. The process included chemical treatment, clarification, filtration and finally reverse osmosis. The RO was far from normal and was designed to almost de-mineralize the water. That caused a problem with the mag flow meters on the clean outlet side of the RO plant. There just wasn't enough minerals in the water to get enough conductivity for that kind of measurement to work. I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids. I suspect its not as straight forward as a lot of people think.
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@jlmassir There's plenty of explanations of how mag-flow meters work. It basically from induction caused by charged particles moving through the coils. But if there's no electrical flow between the electrodes you don't get the charged particles to do that induction. The electrical flow between the electrodes is also AC not DC. I know that because in the mag-flow parameters you can adjust the frequency, which is needed if the water has fewer impurities. It was one of the things we tried on that RO plant.
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I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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I wouldn't call this a busted video because he keeps pointing out where the Veritasium video was right. Its more like he's a more comprehensive explanation of what's going on with electrostatics and various fluids.
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@fulcanostwyr6852 Yeah I get that. BUT ITS STILL NOT A DEBUNK like the ones he does on utter garbage like Hyperloop, Spinlaunch, Lomi and other crap. Those are things that are 100% garbage, BS PR and outright con jobs. All he's done is show that Veritasium had an incomplete explanation for what's going on. Its very similar to Veritasium's video on how electrical energy is transferred. is wrong in certain aspects and at the same time shown this does not work for all fluids. Thunder00t's yet to clearly explain why some fluids do behave this way and others don't. What he's shown is that Veritasium produced an explanation that is incomplete There's a huge difference between debunking garbage and disagreeing over scientific explanations. Science is more often than not. *NOT CRYSTAL CLEAR and there are rarely simple YES-NO or BLACK-WHITE answers.*
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